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Word: paunch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago department store, Santa found that many moppets were fascinated by the ticking of his watch, decided to do even better. He buried an alarm clock in his stuffed paunch. All went well until the alarm went off, sent terrified children scampering across the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLICITY: Sad Santa | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Paunch and Flash Experts...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...long-legged man with a slight paunch climbed into his 1948 Plymouth sedan in Washington last week, settled his Panama on his head and headed for Cleveland. The back of his car was piled with suitcases and a filing cabinet full of material for speeches. Sunday afternoon, with an ear-to-ear grin wreathing his spectacled face, he drove into Cleveland's southeast end and walked into the Cloverleaf Café. "Hey boys," said someone, "here's Senator Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Republican Goes to Ohio | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...major. When the war with the Arabs broke out, Tobiansky, with the full approval of Haganah, kept his civilian job in the British electric light company in Jerusalem. He also commanded a secret Haganah airbase outside the city. He was a quiet man with a slight paunch, who liked to sit in Jerusalem's Cafe Vienna with his wife and some friends, sipping beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Son of Goodness | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Dick would convene the gentlemen of the press in his Dillon cubicle, settle back in his wooden armchair, fold his hands across his paunch, cross those match sticks be uses for legs, and give them the lowdown, drawling half from the aide of his mouth and half through his nose...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Crew Spells Nostalgia to Old Crads | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

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